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Exploration of Kina Balu.

Stock Code 113505

London, Gurney & Jackson, 1893

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Unique author's presentation copy to his parents with all plates and text illustrations specially hand-coloured. A unique copy of Whitehead's Kina Balu on large paper presented by the author to his parents, which in addition to the 14 colour plates found in ordinary copies, has all the additional 17 tinted plates and the vignettes in the text finely hand-coloured, the full-page plates specially mounted.

The primary object of the expedition was ornithological research, though the plates also include natives, views, insects, mammals, etc. The classic work on the area.

First edition; folio (39 x 27 cm), x, [ii], 318 pp., large paper copy inscribed by Whitehead to his parents on the first blank 'To my Father & Mother / with best wishes / from John Whitehead / 17. Sep. 93', 32 lithographed plates and text vignettes all coloured by hand, original pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt, original pictorial green cloth gilt, neat repairs to joints and extremities, light discolouration to lower board, a very good copy.

Fine Bird Books 155; Nissen (ZBI), 4394; Wood p.626; Zimmer p.673.
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Provenance: Whitehead (inscribed by the author to his parents in the year of publication).

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Exploration of Kina Balu.

WHITEHEAD, John.

Stock code: 113505

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